Microsoft sez: Don’t install that Office Mac update!

Microsoft admits to a big oopsie when it released those security updates for …

You may remember all the way back to yesterday (seems like eons ago already) when we posted about two new updates to Office for the Mac, one for Office v.X and one for Office 2004. In the comments, readers started pointing out that the links were either no longer working or that the update was no longer available. What's the deal?

They were taken down. Why were they taken down, you ask? Microsoft says that the posting of those updates were big "oopsies."

The updates posted in error were pre-release binaries that had been staged internally as part of our testing for an upcoming release. Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public websites before our full testing release process was complete.

Microsoft goes on to say that they acted immediately in taking the updates down, and that they will re-release the updates after they have resolved the security issues involved and "meet our quality bar for release."

We recommend that anyone who may have installed these pre-release updates to uninstall them.

I’m sorry for any confusion this might have caused.

Apology accepted, Microsoft! We still heart you! Wait, how are we supposed to "uninstall" the updates?

... ?

Right.

Jacqui Cheng
Jacqui is an Editor at Large at Ars Technica, where she has spent the last eight years writing about Apple culture, gadgets, social networking, privacy, and more. Emailjacqui@arstechnica.com//Twitter@eJacqui